Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

Hans Reiser
2006-08-09T09:40:56Z

Edward Shishkin wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>> Edward Shishkin wrote:
>>
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>>>>
>>>> How about we switch to ecc, which would help with bit rot not sector
>>>> loss?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Interesting aspect.
>>>
>>> Yes, we can implement ECC as a special crypto transform that inflates
>>> data. As I mentioned earlier, it is possible via translation of key
>>> offsets with scale factor > 1.
>>>
>>> Of course, it is better then nothing, but anyway meta-data remains
>>> ecc-unprotected, and, hence, robustness is not increased..
>>>
>>> Edward.
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>>
>>
>> Would you prefer to do it as a node layout plugin instead, so as to get
>> the metadata?
>>
>
> Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
> objected against such checks:

Did I really? Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to
checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them. I personally would
skip the checksum on my computer, but others....

It could be a useful mkfs option....

> currently only bitmap nodes have
> a protection (checksum); supporting ecc-signatures is more
> space/cpu expensive.
>
> Edward.
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